Can it compel railroads to furnish him decent accommodations, which federal law provides shall be equal to those furnished to white passengers, and for which the colored passenger pays the same fare as the white one?
Grimké challenges the effectiveness of federal laws meant to ensure equal treatment for African Americans in transportation.
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Pray, sir, is it a careful desire to fulfill the Scriptures, or to make money, that induces you to hold your fellow-men in bondage?
Then you had better let all your irons burn than neglect your duty to the slave.
It is true many a cheek burns with shame in view of our national inconsistency, and many a heart bleeds for the miserable African.
I cannot conceive why a black man may not as reasonably object to my color, as I to his.